Contents
Introduction:
The Balls-out Truth About Depression
Amy Ferris
Riding With the Top Down
Beverly Donofrio
Suicide, a Love Story
Mark S. King
Three Girls, Laughing
Beth Bornstein Dunnington
Medication Makes Me Whole
Angela M. Giles Patel
Bye-bye, Crayola
Caroline Leavitt
Death, Depression, and Other Capital D Words
Marika Rosenthal Delan
Colors at the Piano
Linda Joy Myers
The Deal Breaker
Lira Maywood
A Slip of the Noose
Jimmy Camp
A Body of Grief
Zoe FitzGerald Carter
If I Love You, You’ll Leave
Debra LoGuerico DeAngelo
Hello, Catastrophe
Elizabeth Rosner
Unraveling
Hollye Dexter
Letters I Will Never Send
Alexa Rosalsky
Nothing Helps, Except Love . . .
C.O. Moed
Search for the Silver Cup
Betsy Graziani Fasbinder
The Merry-Go-Round
Mark Morgan
Thorazine
Karen Lynch
Learning to Sit Still
Chloe Caldwell
Depression is a Patient Stalker
Ruth Pennebaker
Allies in the Sky
David Lacy
Off With the Fairies
Christine Kehl O’Hagan
Learning To Love My Depression
Sherry Amatenstein
Skirting the Abyss
Barbara Abercrombie
God’s Perfect Child
Patti Linsky
Irish Wake-up Call
Kitty Sheehan
The Dialectics of Suicide
Samantha White
Forty-four Steps
Kathryn Rountree
Upon Being Told to Be True to Myself
Jenna Stone
Viral Goodbyes
Matt Ebert
Someday This Pain May Be Useful
Jennifer Pastiloff
Riding Shotgun
judywhite
Surviving the Spiral
Regina Anavy
A Kind of Quiet Most People Have Forgotten
Pam L. Houston